It's exactly four weeks since the earthquake. I'm not going to offer anything today, other than the following video. It was shot by/for Civil Defense, and screened at Friday’s memorial service. It shows what the centre of Christchurch looks like now – no-one except the emergency crews and media have seen this part of the city …
The death/throes of publishing
Came across this article on a recent twist to the eBook issue on the Guardian website. Go, read, I'll wait. The thing that I found most interesting was the comments made afterwards. People who argue that “a(n e)book is only worth what someone will pay for it”. Hmm. I have to say I don't agree. …
Grief, the international currency
Just under three weeks on from the second Christchurch earthquake, and it seems the tragedies keep piling up. They're still trying to recover bodies in the city of Christchurch, and now Japan is being put to the sword. Having been through both 7.1 and a 6.3 magnitude quakes, I can't even begin to imagine how …
The secret of good tragedy
Here we are, just (a few hours) under two weeks since the earthquake. We felt a decent jolt last night, which was the first one I've felt here since last Tuesday night (there have been two others we would normally have felt, but on Saturday morning we were driving, and on Saturday evening we were in …
Larkin, lawnmowers, and longing
This evening after shutting the chooks in for the night, I spent about ten minutes just staring back at our house, feeling such huge gratefulness that we were both ok, that the people I love all seem to be ok, that our little house had carried us safely through (so far). That the clouds had cleared, …
A Dark Feathered Art 